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CATTLE 



made in this country, Thomas Motley of Massachusetts testing 

 the cow Flora 1 13, when, as a three-year-old, 14 pounds 8 ounces 

 of butter was made in seven days from her milk. The same year 

 the cow Rose 240 yielded 17 pounds in seven days. From this 

 time thousands of seven-day tests have been made of Jersey 

 cows, showing records ranging from 14 pounds of churned, 

 salted, and worked butter up to that of Princess 2d 8046, 

 reported to have made an official test of 46 pounds I2i ounces 

 in one week in 188 5. The testing of Jerseys for butter production 

 became so extensive that Major Campbell Brown of Tennessee 

 and others collated and published two volumes of such tests, and 

 later in 1890 the American Jersey Cattle Club took up this work 

 officially. Several thousand records have been published by the 

 club in book form. Many of these records were so high as to cause 

 suspicion of the integrity of the testing, which finally resulted in 

 the club providing for butter-fat tests as well as churn tests, to be 

 supervised by experiment station or agricultural college officials. 

 The following are some of the noteworthy private records : 



Notable Private Jersey Butter Records 



Name of Cow 



Oxford Kate 13646 



Mary Anne of St. Lambert 9770 

 Little Goldie 36671 .... 

 Oonan of Riverside 69773 . . 



Exile's Belle 40524 



Ethleel 2d 32291 



Massey Polo 67010 



Ida of St. Lambert 24990 . . 

 Signal's Lily Flagg 31035 . . 

 Bisson's Belle 31 144 . . . . 



Eurotissima 29668 



Landseer's Fancy 2876 . . . 

 Mary Anne of St. Lambert 9770 

 Eurotas 2454 



Record 



39 



36 



34 



34 



32 



30 



30 



30 



1047 



1028 



945 



936 



867 



778 



lb. 12 



" 1 2 . 1 



" 1 2 . ] 



" 3 



" 7 



" 15 



" 6j 



" z\ 



\ 



" 15 



" 9 



" 145 



" Mi 



" 1 



Duration 



7 days 



7 " 



7 " 



7 " 



7 " 



7 " 



7 " 



7 " 



365 " 



365 " 



365 " 



365 " 



365 " 



365 " 



Year of 

 Test 



1885 

 1884 

 1892 



1895 

 1891 

 1885 

 1894 

 1884 

 1891-1892 



i 888-1 889 

 1886-1887 

 1885-1886 

 1 883-1 884 

 1879-1880 



Since 1893, when the Jersey breed took official part in the 

 dairy-breed competition at the World's Columbian Exposition, 



